Buddha
(Siddhartha Gautama, 6th century BCE)
attained “awakening” after meditating under a tree. When
he was asked his experience, he remained in profound silence: an invitation to try
and experience it ourselves. The “awakening” or “enlightenment” was later
described as the experience of the unity of the many, of the dissolution of the
self in the other, “and” instead of “or”, .... Getting beyond the dualisms of live, indeed.
